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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"garden-path"”.
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Garden path tripartite compounds
… shown that readers struggle with ambiguous or “garden path” sentences. Readers often maintain both the initial incorrect parse of the sentence as well as the final correct parse, resulting in a “good enough” representation of the sentence structure. To my knowledge, no research has analyzed …
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The role of executive control in garden path reinterpretation
… degree of reinterpretation difficulty (the "garden path" sentences), this thesis examined the role of executive control, particularly ability to attend to relevant information and ignore salient but irrelevant information, in reinterpretation. To the extent that executive control ability …
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Convergent probabilistic cues do not trigger syntactic adaptation in relative clause garden-path constructions
… (e.g., a high number of reduced relative-clause garden path sentences) and that these readers grow to disfavor the a priori more frequent structure after exposure (Fine, Jaeger, Qian, & Farmer, 2013). However, recent work has failed to replicate effects indicating a penalty for the preferred, …
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The reanalysis and interpretation of garden-path sentences by native speakers and second language learners
… non-native processing of English and Mandarin garden-path sentences (Chapters 2 and 3) and the relationship between the amount of reanalysis and final interpretation of such sentences (Chapter 4). Verb bias refers to the likelihood of a particular verb taking a particular argument structure, …
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The interaction of images and text during comprehension of garden-path sentences: is integration better than good enough?
… Decades of research on temporarily ambiguous garden-path sentences have given the field of psycholinguistics a comprehensive understanding of how readers process, and often misinterpret, garden-path sentences. Both online and offline data demonstrate that when reading garden-path sentences …
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Modulating Effects of Time of Day on Age Differences in Memory Performance: Attention Versus Inhibition
… individually on a prose recall task and a “garden-path” task that is a procedure to assess inhibitory control over no-longer-relevant material. The latter task was administered in a dual-task condition. A series of mixed analyses of variance with two between-subject factors (Age, Time of …
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Prepositional Phrase Attachment Ambiguities in Declarative and Interrogative Contexts: Oral Reading Data
… of a kind that is standardly called a “garden path.” The mis-parse stems from the temporary ambiguity of the first prepositional phrase (PP1: <em>in the drawer</em>), which tends to be interpreted initially as the goal argument of the verb <em>cram</em>. If the sentence ended there, that …
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Ambigüedad léxica e interpretación. Un enfoque cognitivo. Enunciados retroactivos y enunciados bivalentes
… enunciados de interpretación retroactiva o garden-path. Se analizan los distintos pasos del proceso interpretativo a que estos enunciados se ven sometidos en cada caso. Se defiende y argumenta la necesidad de construir un análisis que combine el estudio de los aspectos relativos a los …
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Implementing Cognitive Semantics
… proportions, part-whole relations, domains, paths and much more. In Part 1 of the book, the author lays the foundations for an implementation of image-schematic structures. Building valence relations between image schemata means superimposing them. The superimposition process turns, scales, …